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3.9.23 Emergency Prep Annual Meeting Registration

Emergency Preparedness: Violence/Active Shooter Awareness and “LTC Shots Fired” Tabletop Exercise LED BY: J. David Weidner, MPH, REHS, MEP, CEM An Active Shooter is defined as an individual who is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people. In most cases active shooters use a firearm(s) and display no pattern or method for selection of their victims. In some cases, Active Shooters use other weapons and/or improvised explosive devices to cause additional victims and act as an impediment to police and emergency responders. Although the probability of an Active Shooter and other workplace violence threat event occurring within a long term care facility is relatively rare, the business impact and the impact to the health and wellbeing of residents, staff and their families is great. Nursing and Assisted Living facilities are not immune to the potential for an Active Shooter event. In fact, in March 2009, a gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home and fatally shot seven nursing home residents and a nurse while wounding at least three other individuals. LTC providers have also faced potential threats from angry family members, employee-to-employee and estranged partner threats, etc. Unfortunately, all businesses need to take steps to prepare for such a horrible event. This includes training, exercising, policy and plan development, and establishing relationships with their local law enforcement agency. This course is not written for law enforcement officers, but for non-law enforcement employees. The material provided has been adapted to address the special demographics of our long-term care residents and the actions our healthcare employees to take should they be confronted with an active shooter situation.

Course Objectives | Upon completing this course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe actions to take when confronted with an active shooter and responding law enforcement officials.
• Recognize potential workplace violence indicators.
• Describe actions to take to prevent and prepare for potential active shooter incidents.
• Describe how to manage the consequences of an active shooter incident.

Tabletop Exercise Objectives

• Identify and evaluate plans for response and mitigation of potential workplace violence such as an Active Shooter event.
• Assess the roles and effectiveness of coordination between public safety officials and LTC owners/operators in reacting to an Active Shooter event in accordance with existing plans.
• Examine and evaluate facility incident response plans used during an Active Shooter event.
• Assess the methods and effectiveness of internal and external communications during an Active Shooter event in accordance with existing plans and SOPs.
• Identify and evaluate response, mitigation, and recovery actions associated with an Active Shooter event at their facility.
• Identify gaps, redundancies, developmental activities, and best practices in standard procedures in response to an Active Shooter event.

8 AM REGISTRATION/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST | 9 AM PROGRAM | 12 PM LUNCH | 1:30 – 4: 30 PM PROGRAM

AFTERNOON PROGRAM | 1:30 AM – 4:30 PM

What’s on the Federal Legislative Landscape
Clif Porter, Senior Vice President of Government Relations,
AHCA/NCAL

State Legislative Update and Prepping for Advocacy Day
MaryKate McLaughlin, Director of Government Affairs,
Delaware, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

DHCFA Annual Meeting & Election
Cheryl Heiks, Executive Director, DHCFA

Long-Term Care and Memory Care Task Force Update
Cheryl Heiks, Executive Director, DHCFA

3.25 credits are being requested from NAB and the Delaware Board of Nursing

Attendees are asked to wear masks when not actively eating and use hand sanitizer as this facility is smaller in size and social distancing will be more difficult.

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